TP-COIL: Launching online courses with U.S. universities!!
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Have you ever participated in classes offered online?
Online courses enable you to have discussions with university students outside your country or to listen to lectures delivered at universities in other countries while being in your regular classroom.
TUFS has been offering online courses in fields such as peace and conflict studies (PCS).
In fact, we have been conducting synchronous online classes by linking classrooms of universities together in several conflict-affected countries for more than 10 years. This is “PCS Global Campus Program” led by Prof. Kenji ISEZAKI at Peace and Conflict Studies, Graduate School of Global Studies.
Generally, it tends to be difficult for students at universities in countries experiencing conflicts to physically go abroad for various reasons and study together with students of different nations, but they can exchange opinions easily with students in other countries in online courses using the internet.
In “PCS Global Campus Program” online course, it was observed that these students acquired the ability to look at their own conflict from diverse perspectives by discussing various conflict cases and interacting students in other countries.
The students’ views are obviously broadened, as participants having different backgrounds come up with opinions from various angles when discussing one conflict.
Online courses, thus, allow you to have discussions with students in other countries without flying all the way, and we will be launching a string of online courses between TUFS and universities in the U.S.!!
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